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Consuming producers: fair trade and small farmers

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posted on 2023-06-07, 16:38 authored by Peter Luetchford
Increasingly, consumers in North America and Europe see their purchasing as a way to express to the commercial world their concerns about trade justice, the environment, and similar issues. This ethical consumption has attracted growing attention in the press and among academics. Extending beyond the growing body of scholarly work on the topic in several ways, this volume focuses primarily on consumers rather than producers and commodity chains. It presents cases from a variety of European countries and is concerned with a wide range of objects and types of ethical consumption, not simply the usual tropical foodstuffs, trade justice, and the system of fair trade. Contributors situate ethical consumption within different contexts, from common Western assumptions about economy and society, to the operation of ethical-consumption commerce, to the ways that people's ethical consumption can affect and be affected by their social situation. By locating consumers and their practices in the social and economic contexts in which they exist and that their ethical consumption affects, this volume presents a compelling interrogation of the rhetoric and assumptions of ethical consumption.

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Publication status

  • Published

Publisher

Berghahn Books

Page range

60-80

Pages

246.0

Book title

Ethical consumption: social value and economic practice

Place of publication

New York, NY

ISBN

9780857453426

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  • Anthropology Publications

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Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Editors

Peter G Luetchford, James G Carrier

Legacy Posted Date

2012-11-22

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